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Upcoming Webinar, 19th July, What is New in Tungsten Replicator 5.2 and Tungsten Clustering 5.2?
Continuent Tungsten 5.2 is just around the corner. This is one of our most exciting Tungsten product releases for some time! In this webinar we’re going to have a look at a host of new features in the new release, including Three new Replication Applier Targets (Kafka, Cassandra and Elasticsearch) New improvements to our core command-line…
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New Continuent Webinar Wednesdays and Training Tuesdays
We are just starting to get into the swing of setting up our new training and webinar schedule. Initially, there will be one Webinar session (typically on a Wednesday) and one training session (on a Tuesday) every week from now. We’ll be covering a variety of different topics at each. Typically our webinars will be…
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Kafka Replication from MySQL and Oracle
Hello again everybody. Well, I promised it a couple of weeks ago, and I’m sorry it has been so long (I’ve been working on other fun stuff in addition to this). But I’m pleased to say that we now have a fully working applier that takes data from an incoming THL stream, whether that is Oracle…
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Replicating into ElasticSearch
So here at Continuent we are working on multiple new targets for applying data using Tungsten Replicator. There are so many potential targets out there where people want to replicate data directly into a specific system, sometimes just for a specific data set, table, database or requirements. Yesterday afternoon, I started working on ElasticSearch –…
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Percona Live 2017
So glad to have had a successful Percona Live last week. Continuent were Diamond Sponsors and now that we are back into a company and not part of VMware we have a little more freedom to get back into the MySQL community. I had two primary sessions, both on the replicator/ But one was looking…
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Data Migration: Handling Data Types
Handling the structure, and deciding which fields, data types, or data points, relate to which fields or target elements within the destination database are one thing. Normally you can make an intelligent decision about the information that is being transferred and how that structural information should be handled. The actual data can be a completely…
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Data Migration: Mapping the Data
When moving the data between different databases the primary considering is what that’s going to look like so that it can be used in the target environment. Later chapters are going to dig deeper into this topic, but let’s fly over some of the key considerations here. Mapping Columns to Tables If we were replicating…
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Data Migration: Moving the Actual Data
There are two key elements to the exchange of any information between databases. One is the data structure used for the exchange, and the other is the transformation required to reach those structures. Some of these are driven by the source database, others by the target database. For example, when moving data from RDBMS to…
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Data Migration: Methods
Throughout the series we will examine four distinct methods for moving and sharing information stored in databases, and each have their specific meanings, techniques and tricks to get the best out of the process. The four methods are: Moving – this refers to the process of moving data to another database for a simple export…
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Extending the Tungsten Replicator Core JS Filter Functionality
Tungsten Replicator has a really cool feature in that we can filter data as it goes past on the wire. The replicator itself is written entirely in Java and writing filters for it is not as straightforward as it looks, which is why the much better feature is just to use the JavaScript mechanism and…